Apparently, Schumer Thinks He Is Above the Law

Funny thing about Senator Schmuck Schumer. He is determined to be relevant, and will do or say anything to accomplish that end.

 

Well, maybe he has finally accomplished it. But this was not how he wanted to be noticed. Was it?

It was reported in Raw Story, a liberal online publication, that the interim DC US Attorney, Ed Martin, sent an email titled 'Operation Whirlwind' in which he said he's “personally launched an investigation into Sen. Chuck Schumer.”

Why? Because the Schmuckster has, according to the email Martin sent to colleagues, described “despicable” threats being received by DOGE workers and other Trump administration officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

This is not the first time Schumer has threatened other government officials to whom he is opposed. He has previously threatened Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, as well.

Schumer was always a “bagman” for the Democrats; that is why he is now the Democrat Senate Leader. He is very capable, like a Mafia bagman or collector, to raise untold sums of cash using, some would say, “questionable” or “forceful” methods.

But he has been good at it. And no one questioned it.

Until now.

Martin wrote in his email, "I reached out to Schumer to investigate his threats," but wrote that he had not yet received a response.

"Let me be clear," Martin continued. "We will protect each other. We will protect DOGE. We will protect our judges and cops. And we will go after the people who threaten federal workers and who use their threats to move others against us. We will hold all of them accountable because, as former President Joe Biden said in 2024, 'No one is above the law.'"

Except, apparently, the Schmuckster.

The Hyperbolic Schmuckster Becomes More Irrelevant

So, did we miss something big over the weekend? Did the United States annex Canada?

 

After all, apparently that dumb@$$, Senator Schmuck Schumer is blaming President Donald Trump for the unfortunate plane crash which happened in Toronto. Which is in Canada.

The Schmuckster had fired off a slew of tweets referencing the FAA cuts as he reacted to news of the Delta plane bursting into flames and tipping over as it touched down at Toronto-Pearson International Airport on Monday.

He must think Canada is now our fifty-first state, since it was the FAA's fault for the crash. No Chuckie, it was the CANADIAN Air Traffic Controllers who were in charge of the flight once it left American airspace.

In fact, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was quick to point that out to the uninformed political muckraker, who made himself look like a buffoon.

“It’s incredibly irresponsible for Chuck Schumer to say such a thing when the investigation is still underway,” the press sec told Fox News’ “America Reports” late Tuesday.

“This crash unfortunately took place in Canadian airspace with Canadian air traffic controllers overseeing it,” she said. “No air traffic controllers have been let go” by the Trump administration.

“In fact, Secretary [Sean] Duffy has put great emphasis on hiring the best and the brightest air traffic controllers who want to be part of the FAA,” Leavitt continued.

So maybe, next time the Schmuckster wants to be a $#!+stirrer, he better check his facts. He has become the live-action, modern-day “Peter” as he cries “Wolf” each time he opens his mouth or attempts to use his brain.

He is sinking faster to dramatic hyperbole as he becomes more irrelevant.

Anti-Semitism Is Living Large In New York

Once again, anti-Semitic violence reared its ugly head last night in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn, NY. Pro-Hamas, anti-Israel demonstrations flared up because Pal-Awda gathered to protest what it claimed was Palestinian land being sold off to the Jewish state, the group shared in a post on X Monday afternoon.

 

Right. As if the Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn had any control or say in what goes on in the Middle East.

As reported in the overnight editions of the New York Post, the protest organizer yelled, “There is only one solution, intifada revolution” through a megaphone as others shouted, “Settlers, settlers, go back home, Palestine is ours alone,” the outlet reported.

While local leaders called for police intervention and for cooler heads to prevail, Governor Krazy Kat was off on a mission with the Unrev Al Sharpton to figure a way to bring down Mayor Eric Adams. All because the Trump DOJ decided not to pursue the politically motivated charges the Biden regime brought against Adams because he wasn’t “a Good Democrat.”

Also, Mayor Adams decided he would look out for ALL the citizens of the City and permit ICE to round up illegal criminals who terrorize the people, and not enforce Unconstitutional “Sanctuary” laws.

Her priorities are all fecked up. Instead, her silence was deafening as the violence continued in the City.

Bronx Congressman  Ritchie Torres (D-NY) blasted protesters for targeting Boro Park “simply because it is Jewish”, and vulnerable.

“It should come as a shock to no one that the pro-Hamas mob targeting Jews and promising to ‘flood’ Boro Park has descended into violence,” he posted to  Tuesday night.

“Violence is not a bug but a feature of the so-called ‘Free Palestine’ movement, which has no desire to free Palestinians from Hamas.”

Where is the outrage against Hamas for gloating that they are releasing the bodies of a two-year-old and five-year-old. Along with their mother, who they butchered after the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack?

No, Krazy Kat and the Unrev Al have no time to address this barbaric and ghoulish statement. Too busy dealing with how they can stick it to Adams and Trump.

While innocents in Brooklyn are continuing to be threatened and beaten because they are Jewish.

Why I Support Donald Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE

This morning, a long-time banker friend of mine asked me this:

 

“Should we start to worry about all these people who are resigning or being let go from agencies like SSA etc. How about all the people being let go because their term action letters say due to poor performance? I'm starting to think DJT is making too many changes too fast!!!”

I thought about these valid points, considered them after I read that DOGE found a $4.7TT unaccounted for expenditure on Treasury documents, and responded thusly:

“The government is bloated with dead wood. That's why we are $36TT in debt. People working from home, waiting for 30 min on hold, and so much more inefficiency. If we ran a bank that way, we would not be in business too long. Too many people making big money with better benefits than we had. Great pensions, guaranteed jobs, can't be fired. The obvious frontline job where mediocrity is tolerated is the Post Office. And you can't go to the SSA office anymore without an appointment. That is why he is cleaning house.”

But presently, while I feel bad that so many people have lost their jobs, the people need to be blaming the Democrats AND Republicans in the Congress for their misfortune. Not Elon Musk or Donald Trump.

For too long, waste, fraud and abuse were tolerated with only a few crying out in the wilderness, while the status quo was sanctioned by those in control. 

Members of Congress of both parties, their staffs and families enjoyed their Obamacare exemptions, paid for by American taxpayers, while the rest of us struggled with rising medical costs.

Now, especially for those on Medicare, we are denying ourselves of necessary treatment because the premiums are exorbitant, the co-pays are prohibitive, and too many needed drugs are not in an affordable tier. Like Insulin, a drug given to society for free by the men who discovered it.

Until now, our country was sending money to other countries as “foreign aid” to support every left-wing program, paid for illegals’ housing and food in luxury hotels in New York City and other big blue cities, while homeless veterans starved, and so many other neglectful abuses of ordinary Americans. And Chuck and Maxine and Dickie and AOC are complaining?

They should all be impeached and imprisoned for failing in their fiduciary responsibilities for not safeguarding our tax dollars at a minimum, and for dishonoring their Oaths to work for US, not special interests.

And protesting the work of the world’s richest man? He isn’t doing this to steal our money. Like Trump, Democrats loved him before they hated him. Because he points out all their dishonest behavior.

So, what WAS $4.7TT used for? I think every Member of Congress should be audited and be required to explain how they are all multi-millionaires on less than $200K in annual income.

I applaud President Trump on keeping his “shock and awe” promise to root out our bloated government, and I encourage Elon Musk to forge ahead with his continued discoveries of waste, fraud and abuse of our hard-earned money.

And I demand that every Democrat and Republican who is presently protesting against DOGE, STFU, sit down and consider lawyering up because most of you are the cause of our financial mess. Your corruption is unconscionable and will not longer be tolerated.

As I said, if I were running a bank like this, I would be out on my @$$ and in jail for fiduciary malfeasance.

A Violation of Her Oath to Support the Constitution?

Leftist darling Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s office hosted a webinar last Wednesday explaining the tactics Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities have been using in New York to arrest illegal immigrants in an apparent effort to help them avoid deportation. While she did not appear during the seminar, she boasted unremittingly her endorsement of the tactics discussed on her social media pages, condoning her support of opposition against ICE.

 

She has proven herself to be either a traitor to her Oath to support the Constitution or a buffoon.

Border czar Tom Homan has doubled down on his scrutiny of AOC’s attempts to help illegal immigrants evade authorities, telling Fox News and the New York Post again that he’s asked the Department of Justice to look into whether her actions are illegal. Ooops! She has opened herself up to charges of what amount to obstruction of justice.

“What I find disturbing is that any member of Congress wants to educate people on how they evade law enforcement,” Homan told the outlet Monday, referring to a webinar the “Squad” member’s office hosted last week titled “Know Your Rights in case of ICE.”

“You can claim you’re educating those constitutional rights, okay, you can keep that claim, okay. But what she is in fact doing is telling people ‘Don’t open the door, hide in your home, don’t talk to ICE,’” he said.

“We are talking about people who are in the country illegally, committed a crime. They are public safety threats, and they’ve been ordered removed by a federal judge,” he added. “It’s like AOC and others don’t want ICE to enforce the law that they enacted.”

She is actually working against her hard-working, legal constituents who voted for her, in order to protect criminals who violated the rights of her constituents. It is a puzzlement how she keeps getting re-elected.

Homan was asked if he would pursue an arrest warrant against AOC, who has baited him in Congressional hearings, for promoting illegal activities. He said he would leave it to the DOJ to decide.

“I sent an email today to the deputy attorney general. At what level is that impediment? Is that impediment?” Homan told Fox host Laura Ingraham. “Maybe AOC is going to be in trouble now.”

And of course, AOC mocked him on X, posting, “MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw,” she wrote.

Maybe she won’t be laughing as she is hauled before a judge to explain her unconstitutional behavior or when the Congress expels her for betraying her Oath to support the Constitution.

A Blustering Idiot Has a Death Wish

Hezbollah's leader, Secretary-General Naim Qassem, has a death wish, apparently. It was reported in the media that he has threatened Israel and Bibi Netanyahu to get out of Lebanon. OR ELSE.

 

His threat, issued yesterday, says that if Israel does not withdraw its forces from Lebanon by today, “we will know how to deal with it. Israel must fully withdraw on February 18, it has no excuse,” the Hezbollah chief said in a televised address cited by France 24.

“It is the responsibility of the Lebanese state to take a firm stance and force Israel to withdraw,” he added. If Israeli forces remain in Southern Lebanon, he continued, “Everyone understands how [Hezbollah] will deal with the occupation.”

He does not seem to remember that Israel wiped the dirt road with Hezbollah cowards last year. With pagers. He, obviously, is looking to see the rest of his forces destroyed.

The Israeli Air Force on Sunday evening carried out strikes on several Hezbollah sites in Lebanon housing rocket launchers and weapons, the IDF said.

How is that for a swift response?

Meanwhile, President Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this weekend to “do whatever you want” after he vowed to “open the gates of hell” against Hamas if the Palestinian terror group doesn’t release all remaining hostages.

Looks like The Sword of Damocles has been tossed down as a message of warning or foreboding by both the American and Israeli leaders to Middle Eastern terrorists who think the bullying of Israel will be continued unabated. Donald Trump is not going to pussyfoot with Israel’s security like Joe Biden did.

And Israel, as well as, other American allies and partners in the Middle East have recognized the difference in American leadership and resolve.

So, maybe, Qassem needs to look around and realize no one, not even his biggest ally, Iran, is ready to defend his bluster. He is nothing but a lone mongrel baying in the silence, with no one to come to his aid.

He better take a seat and stay quiet before a cruise missile suddenly hits HIS house without warning.

The Responsibility of a Free Media to Exercise Free Speech

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

 

Having the the Freedom of Speech is a God-Given right, guaranteed by the Constitution. And so is the Freedom of the Press.

It does not allow someone to scream “FIRE” in a crowded theater. Nor does it permit a journalist to get on TV and make patently false, unsubstantiated statements, knowing that his or her bully pulpit is a powerful medium from which people expect to hear the truth.

But week after week, liberal journalists do exactly that.

Most recently, Margaret Brennan of CBS News made a blatant falsehood, and expected to get it by Marco Rubio unchallenged. She claimed that free speech was “weaponized” in Germany to carry out the Holocaust, as she claimed Vice President JD  Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference, where he criticized European leaders for censorship and said “the threat from within,” rather than Russia or China, posed the greatest danger to the security of the West.

She assumed that her statement would just get by without comment. But she underestimated Secretary Rubio.

“Why would our allies or anybody be irritated by free speech and by someone giving their opinion? We are, after all, democracies,” Rubio replied. “And so, I think if anyone’s angry about his words, they don’t have to agree with him, but to be angry about it, I think actually makes his point."

Brennan then offered a historically dubious and weak response.

“Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide, and he met with the head of a political party that has far-right views and some historic ties to extreme groups,” she said. “The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that.”

Rubio was quick to criticize her flawed logic. “No, I have, I have to disagree with you. Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities and they hated those that they, they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews.”

Perhaps the media in general, and CBS in particular, need to go back to journalism school and learn the difference between real facts and the reporter’s interpretation of those same facts to make a statement as if that were the truth.

It is not a CBS issue; recently, ABC settled a lawsuit with Donald Trump because its “ace interviewer”, George Stephanopoulos decided to accuse the now-President of a crime of which he knew Trump was found not guilty. And it paid the price. And soon, the 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris will be settled for a hefty sum, too.

The lesson that the legacy media needs to learn is that it has become untrustworthy to deliver fair and truthful news to the population at large. We recognize that we all have opinions and can sometimes seep into what is being said. But presently, there is no attempt to PREVENT this.

The pendulum is swinging in an alternative direction, where Americans will get the news from an unbiased source. Until the legacy media learns this, ratings will continue to fall and so will corporate profits.

The press, like guns, has changed dramatically since 1787. And both require that responsible people are held to the changing dynamic that 21st century society requires.

It is time to hold the media accountable for violating the same trust we hold law-abiding gun owners to. The trust that those who speak the words across public airwaves understand that those words are as powerful as the bullets from a forty-five caliber handgun or AR-15.

To quote some wise men from a different time who offered our generation of Americans some real guidance:

“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.” - Ben Franklin

“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost." And, "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle." Thomas Jefferson

It is up to those who have the power of the media to exercise the wisdom to speak freely, but truthfully, or the trust we have in it will certainly be lost forever.

The US v NY and Its Green Light Law

On Thursday, Politico reported that New York’s Green Light Law was back in the news. US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she was going to sue New York State, Governor Krazy Kat and NYAG Letitia James for not complying with federal immigration law.

 

The Green Light Law essentially blocks the Federal government and other entities from obtaining information on illegals who are registered with the New York DMV.

A little history on this law. In 2007, then-Governor Elliot Spitzer pushed for, and then signed, the law into effect. The only opponent? Erie County Clerk Kathy Hochul.

Before she was appointed by Governor Spitzer, she had never won an elected office more prominent than a post on the Town of Hamburg’s board. Now that she’s being sued by AG Bondi, Krazy Kat is now positioned to be its most vocal champion.

“New York is proud that immigrants from across the globe come here searching for a better life, people like my grandparents who left Ireland looking for the American dream,” the now-governor said in response to Bondi’s announcement. “We welcome law-abiding individuals who want to work, pay taxes and contribute to our communities, while at the same time protecting the public safety of all New Yorkers by cracking down on violent criminals.”

The problem with her argument is two-fold. Her grandparents, like mine, came here legally, waiting for the Wheel of Fortune to spin and land on their number, and, they did not commit crimes after they got here. The government is looking for the illegals who have committed crimes.

The suit rests on statutory language that only allows the state to share information on licensees with immigration officials if there’s a court order or warrant. The DMV Green Light Law is REQUIRED to give the individuals a heads-up that their information has been sought.

“It’s tipping off an illegal alien, and it’s unconstitutional,” Bondi said on Wednesday. “That’s why we filed this lawsuit," said Bondi.

Hochul is digging in her heels and James is going all in too.

“That’s a common-sense approach that most New Yorkers support. But there’s no way I’m letting federal agents, or Elon Musk’s shadowy DOGE operation, get unfettered access to the personal data of any New Yorker in the DMV system like 16-year-old kids learning to drive and other vulnerable people.”

Until now, no one on the Federal side had the guts to challenge this law, which helped to make New York a “Sanctuary” State. The one-time opposition leader against this law is now the “Queen”, guarding the law-breakers. And James is her “Fool”. Let’s see how this plays for their reelection bids.

 Meanwhile, the law will be declared Unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and she will be forced to comply.

Money Laudering, Citibank and the Biden Regime

In 1970, the Congress passed the Bank Secrecy Act as the first laws to fight money laundering in the United States. The BSA requires businesses to keep records and file reports that are determined to have a high degree of usefulness in criminal, tax, and regulatory matters.

 

A bank is required to file Form 4789 with the IRS within ten days of a large deposit with the name and address of the customer making a deposit greater than $10,000. Stiff penalties are assessed for failure to do so.

Yesterday, we discovered in an article from the New York Post, that a $20Bn Biden Regime green-energy slush fund was collecting interest at Citibank and is being distributed without proper oversight, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin revealed in an exclusive interview.

Citibank should know that $20Bn is a couple of dollars more than $10,000. Senior executives had to realize a large deposit was made and should have been looking for the form.

Former President Joe Biden’s EPA parked $20Bn at the financial institution, as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. 

But the awardees weren’t announced until August 2024 and Citibank was not brought in officially until September, after Biden’s disastrous June debate performance led him to withdraw from his re-election effort in July, making for a very different race with former Vice President Kamala Harris the Democratic nominee.

But executives knew that their deposit portfolio balances exceeded the prior quarterly balances. They should have been asking questions and not turned a blind eye to such a questionable increase. Meanwhile, they were enjoying the largesse by making loans, earning interest and rewarding bonuses.

Ultimately, several Democrat Party favorites were awarded the funds, including the Native CDFI Network,  like “gold bars thrown overboard the Titanic” with no regard for the American taxpayers. And up until now, no penalties, fines and other anti-money laundering (AML) punishment has been assessed against the executives of Citibank.

As a retired banker, bank security officer and compliance officer, I find this highly irregular. And illegal. There is no way the bank would be able to circumvent punishment for “not knowing” the laundering was committed.

“Too Big To Fail” does not give the executives a “Get Out of Jail Free” card. Let’s hope the EPA, Treasury and DOJ see it the same way.

After all, we should have a Justice System which works the same for everyone.

A Man of Honor, Courage and Reasonableness

There are most Democrats when you listen to them, you know they are off the rails and out of touch with what most Americans find reasonable, and will at least consider. Those Democrats are the hopeless and helpless, blinded by their own narrow-minded views.

 

You KNOW who they are; they look for the spotlight and blather their irrational nonsense, usually on the Sunday morning news shows. Bobbing their heads up and down like bobble-head dolls.

And then, you have someone, say, like Dean Phillips from Minnesota, who was brave enough in 2024 to take on a sitting President, run against him for the nomination, and called out his party’s leaders for claiming he was still a mentally capable man, when even a twelve-year-old knew he wasn’t.

For that virtue of honesty, he lost his seat in the Congress and was banished. Never to be heard from again.

Until now.

It was reported in The Hill and other outlets that Dean Phillips is calling out his fellow Dems for protesting against the work that Elon Musk and DOGE are doing to expose the waste and fraud being discovered via these audits. He sat with CNN’s Laura Coates on Wednesday, and said Democrats are wrong to be attacking Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), arguing the American people are broadly supportive.

“Democrats are only focused on one thing right now, Mr. Musk. The fact of the matter, he’s quite popular. He has the largest platform in human history, which is, of course, Twitter/X. And I think we’re missing the boat as Democrats,” Phillips said in the interview.

“And all I’m saying is that sometimes it’s better to join them and actually play a role in how the strategy works, rather than so pathetically, frankly, try to combat something that clearly is a steamroller,” Phillips continued. “And Democrats are being steamrolled, and I’m deeply concerned about that.”

It is so refreshing to hear and read common sense from someone willing to stand up for what is right, even when it goes against his party's positions. The man has what we call courage and integrity.

And we thank you Mr Phillips for exemplifying what is missing from so many in your party. You are Man of Honor.

Let’s up more will come forth and stand with reasonableness.

More Confirmations Resolved and Some Yet to Come

As of late this morning, three of President Trump's more controversial nominees have now been confirmed. In one, Vice President Vance has to exercise his Constitutionally-authorized tie-breaking vote.

In all three votes, former Leader Mitch MConnell  went against the President and voted with the Democrats.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was confirmed 51 to 50, while Director Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary Robert Kennedy both squeaked by with 52 to 48 votes. But, thus far, no one has been denied.

Secretary Hegseth has been making promised improvements to the military, ending DEI in the troops, and dismissing failed woke Generals and Admirals.  This has given a true boost in troop morale downline.

Director Gabbard has promised she will immediately end the weaponization rampant in the Intelligence Community.  She will be a pillar in the Trump Administration to keep Americans safe from terrorism, both foreign and domestic.

Secretary Kennedy has been a fighter for injustice all his life, and like his namesake father, will root out corruption and decay in the HHS, including the FDA, CDC and NIH. He is fearless, and has proven his mettle as a disruptor to the status quo during his grueling nomination process to stand up for what he believes is right.

Still to come: a final vote on Kash Patel as FBI Director, who will overhaul the entire bureau, when confirmed. He needs to route the degenerate turpitude which has destroyed the Bureau’s reputation.

Also, Education Secretary Nominee Linda McMahon  has begun her first day of hearings. She has promised to work with the Congress, while downsizing and closing the Department, as much of what is done is returned to the States.

Others still to be heard from are Howard Lutnick, Commerce Secretary, Elise Stefanik,  UN Ambassador, and Lori Chaves-DeRemer, Labor Secretary are still among those to be considered.

It is a surely slow process,  but it is being done by the one hundred members of the most deliberative body in the world.

The Real Constitutional Crisis at Work

In Political Science, a “Constitutional Crisis” is a problem or conflict in the function of a government that the political constitution or other fundamental governing law is perceived to be unable to resolve.

 

The Watergate Scandal is the premier textbook example of a “Constitutional Crisis” where one co-equal branch of our government defied the other two co-equal branches of government, until ultimately, the President was forced to resign. Because he tried to run ramshod over the Constitution.

The "illiberal media" (which has no defined Constitutional power) and some Democrats (but not all) are decrying that we are facing a “Constitutional Crisis” three weeks in to the Trump Presidency. Why? Because he has decided to make good on promises he made that 77MM Americans expect him to keep.

So yes. There IS the making of said Crisis. But it is not President Trump who created it.

It is, instead, a handful of activist judges, and the special interests they answer to, who are creating this crisis.

No less than Constitutional lawyer Jonathon Turley made this point in yesterday’ edition. of the New York Post in an op-ed piece. Quoting:

This week, the Democrat Party jumped the Shark.

For years, Dems and their allies pushed the absurd claim that democracy was about to die if Joe Biden or Kamala Harris was not elected president. The public wasn’t buying it. In 2024, Donald Trump won a majority of the voters as well as control of both houses of Congress.

Rather than examine its messaging, Democrats decided to double down. After the election, politicians and pundits announced a new “constitutional Crisis” surrounding the effort to downsize the federal government led by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

When you consider that some Democrats have been trying to undermine the election results since November, it isn’t a surprise that “Constitutional Crisis” would be their next “battle cry”, since everything else has failed. And the fact that Senator Schumer set up a “whistleblower hotline” which is backfiring against the Democrats is very telling.

The American people are no longer buying what the Democrats and their media pawns are selling. Sooner or later, all the activist judges’ TRO’s will be overturned as well, since THOSE ORDERS will be deemed Unconstitutional. Then, what will the Democrats and their cronies do?

There is a liberal newspaper in DC which created a unique tagline. But the publisher was not entirely correct.

It should be changed to read “Democracy Dies In Leftist Political Subterfuge”.

The Prodigal Son Returns Home

While reports had been circulating for over a week that Pete Alonso was going to re-sign with the Mets, quoting unnamed sources, on Wednesday, the Mets finally made it official. President of Baseball Operations, David Stearns, held a brief encounter with the media in Port St Lucie to discuss how it came about.

 

It is a good deal for Pete, for the team and for the fans. For Pete, it is a two-year $54MM contract, which he can opt-out after 2025, and revisit free agency. It is the Cespedes version which worked out well for Yoenis Cespedes, where he opted out after 2016 and re-signed a better four-year contract with the Mets.

It is a better deal for the team, because they get another shot with Pete and Juan Soto to achieve last year’s “almost made it” goal and could really do it this year. Barring injuries.

And it is a great deal for the fans since they will bear witness to a long-time home run record being broken, probably in August which was held by Met great, Darryl Strawberry. He has promised to be on hand when that happens. The joint WILL BE jumping.

If they go on to the World Series, and Pete repeats last year’s post-season performance, you can be sure he will be rewarded with that long-term contract he had hoped to get this off-season. That would be his crowning achievement.

Then, in maybe 2035, after he joins the 500 Home Run club, or even the elusive 600 or 700 HR club, he will watch his number be raised to the roof as an all-time Met Great. And all this recent drama will have been worth it.

Welcome Home, Pete!

USAID - Giving Aid and Comfort to Our Enemies

There is no way ANY Democrat Senator or Representative can any longer justify the existence of USAID. None. Unless he or she agrees with providing weapons to Hezbollah.

 

USAID humanitarian packages were found amidst a cache of weapons owned by terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon, an Israel Defense Forces soldier claimed   to the New York Post. Hmmm. Looks like someone was playing both sides against the middle.

On the one hand, someone in one side of the State Department authorized shipments of weapons to Hezbollah, while Tony “Baloney” Blinken and Dementia Joe were telling Israel a pack of BS bull crap.

“From the American taxpayer to Hezbollah, with love,” said Asher Fredman, a former IDF soldier and currently executive director of the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy, a think tank, in Jerusalem.

Makes you wonder. Doesn’t it?!?

“USAID is driving the radical left crazy, and there is nothing they can do about it because the way in which the money has been spent, so much of it fraudulently, is totally unexplainable,” President Trump posted on his Truth Social account Friday.

So, is the Shmuckster or Bumblin’ Bernie or Screamin' Liz Warren or Debbie Wasserman Schultz going to continue to yell and scream about the “terrible” harm Elon and Donald are doing to our status in the world as a charity to terrorists? 

Or, will they now go quietly into the night? Hoping we never hear from them or their ilk again.

And how much more stuff will we be surprised about that Democrats knew was going on and said nothing. As they were aiding and abetting our and our ally’s enemies.

THAT certainly borders on treason.

Trump Makes Promises and He Keeps Them

Biden was “President” for four years and so far, Americans, who were captured and held in Venezuela and Russia, languished in those jails for years. But then, Maduro and Putin opened their eyes.

You see, they saw there was a new Sheriff in town and decided it was the better part of valor not to feck around with this guy. So, within a week of his Inauguration, Venezuela released six captured Americans.

And ten days later, today, Russia released Pennsylvania teacher Marc Fogel. He was arrested and sentenced in 2021 to fourteen years in a Russian prison with what he claimed was legally prescribed marijuana.

“Today, President Donald J. Trump and his Special Envoy Steve Witkoff are able to announce that Mr. Witkoff is leaving Russian airspace with Marc Fogel, an American who was detained by Russia,” national security adviser Mike Waltz said in a statement.

Malphine Fogel, Marc Fogel’s 

ninety-five year-old mother, was a featured guest at the Pennsylvania campaign rally where Trump was nearly assassinated last July 13, and told reporters previously that President Trump had made a promise to bring her son home. Today, that promise was fulfilled.

“President Trump, Steve Witkoff and the President’s advisors negotiated an exchange that serves as a show of good faith from the Russians and a sign we are moving in the right direction to end the brutal and terrible war in Ukraine,” Waltz continued. 

“Since President Trump’s swearing-in, he has successfully secured the release of Americans detained around the world, and President Trump will continue until all Americans being held are returned to the United States. By tonight, Marc Fogel will be on American soil and reunited with his family and loved ones thanks to President Trump’s leadership.”

Once again, Trump made a promise and he kept it.

Another Victory to Cancel Lawfare

It seems the lawfare case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams is over and done, never to rear its ugly head again. This case was brought against the Mayor because the Biden DOJ told him to sit down, shut up and be a “Good Democrat."

But instead, he stood up for The City which Biden and his cronies were thrashing and trashing with unwanted illegals, and finally, began trashing The Mayor's reputation.

Initially, they began to go after his subordinates, like a former Police Commissioner, that person’s replacement, a couple of Deputy Mayors, a Schools Chancellor, until finally, they went after the Mayor. He still complained and then, on some minor infraction, they indicted him, as if he was involved in a “pay to play” scheme. Even though he had no authority as a Boro President.

So, last night it was reported by the New York Post that the Trump DOJ had no reason to continue this political persecution of someone because he did not comply with orders issued from on high. So, the US Attorney of the SDNY was told, “You are directed, as authorized by the Attorney General, to dismiss the pending charges” against Adams, Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove wrote in a letter.

Mayor Adams was looking for a pardon so he could run for re-election without having the trial to impact his time. Instead, he can run as a free and clear candidate without election interference, not needing to address his potential guilt.

While he probably won’t run now as a Republican (though years ago he was), much like former illinois Governor Rod Blagovich, who was also given a reprieve and pardon from President Trump, he is solidly now a Trumpcrat.

He will work with the Trump DHS to clean up his City of illegal criminals who have destroyed it. In a footnote, Bove’s letter contended there wasn’t a quid pro quo between Adams and the Trump administration.

“(The) Government is not offering to exchange dismissal of a criminal case for Adams’s assistance on immigration enforcement,” it states.

Judge Dale Ho, who has heard the case in Manhattan federal court, will still have to sign off on the dismissal, but that appears to be just a formality, with prosecutors saying they have no intention of continuing the case.

Now, unencumbered, it will be up to Mayor Adams to prove to the citizens of New York if he is worthy of a second term.

Time Is NOT on Hamas' Side, or Iran's

One would think that the leaders of Hamas would not be jerking around with the October 7 hostages anymore and would just release them en masse. Especially since most of the world knows most, if not all, of them are already dead.

And unlike the incapable Biden, President Trump has no tolerance for bull$#!+. He has made that clear many times.

Of course, Hamas answers to the Mullahs and the Ayatollah who hide out in Tehran, who have shown themselves to be cowardly bullies. You know the type, big talk, no walk.

In January, we wondered why Trump agreed to that ridiculous ceasefire which went into effect the day before he took office. Well, Biden was still President and took the credit for that disaster. And Trump allowed it to play out until he finally said “enough”.

Yesterday, at around six PM, his patience finally wore out. He had given Hamas, and Iran, three weeks to release the hostages and they were now balking on some technicality.

Common sense should have entered in the Iranian mindset, knowing from past experience that President Trump was not going to allow the dribble of hostages to continue. Even if Hamas’ leaders were too dumb to see the bigger picture.

And when Israel agreed with Trump to cede Gaza to the US, brighter people would have read the tea leaves.

So, now, it is was reported by every media outlet, Hamas, and Iran, have less than 100 hours to release the remaining hostages or, as Trump said, “all hell is going to break out.” Do the Mullahs dare to find out what that means?

What he means is yet unclear, but painful sanctions will be involved. And maybe a few precision-targeted cruise missiles. At a minimum.

No American troops will be needed. The IDF is well-prepared to take on the cowardly bullies in Gaza.

After the most recent release of the hostages, their emaciated condition revealed that Hamas, and by extension, Iran, has not abided by the Geneva Conventions regarding the caring and treatment of Prisoners of War. And as for any UN response to any American action, the UN is also complicit for allowing this situation to fester.

So, the UN is invited to sit down and shut up. And so are any American politicians who said nothing over the last 15 1/2 months of Dementia Joe’s destructive Presidency.

President Trump has given plenty of warning, so whatever happens now will not be a surprise. Hamas and Iran need to comply now.

Tick-Tock. Tick-Tock.

Omeletting You Down, Over Easy

There is actually a joke somewhere in this commentary, which some might find offensive but actually explains why we presently have an egg crisis. But in all seriousness, we find ourselves in the frying pan.

 

It was revealed today that Costco, Trader Joe and other grocery stores have responded to this crisis by finally limiting the number of eggs one can purchase per day, to prevent hardboiled hoarding. This practice was applied during COVID when the supply of toilet paper became a problem due to inordinate selfishness on the part of some.

Now, it will be instituted to prevent people from scrambling to buy eggs.

CNN is reporting that Trader Joe is limiting purchases to one dozen per day per customer, while Costco has limited purchase ls to three packages per day per customer. Costco typically sells in two dozen or four dozen cartons.

Kroger has indicated that there is no poaching being applied nationally, but limits are being placed regionally based on availability. Aldi and Lidl have not yet made any announcements on their policies.

We know this has been caused by the outbreak of avian flu. Previously, Biden had authorized destruction of many hens to prevent the spread. Talk about choking a chicken!

Once the outbreak has subsided, prices and supplies will stabilize, and the crisis will end.

In the meantime, keep your sunnyside outlook up.

What Price of Punishment is Fair for Stealing From Americans

Here are some interesting stats to consider regarding the 2024 election. There are fifty states, and Donald Trump won thirty-one. There are 538 electoral votes, and Trump won 312. There are 3,143 counties/boroughs/parishes and, again, Trump won more than 2,800 or 90% of them. And of the 152MM votes cast, Donald Trump won 77MM or 51% of all votes, while Kamala Harris won 47% and the other 2% were won by third-party candidates.

 

Any reasonable person would admit he won a mandate across the country. And therefore, people voted FOR his agenda.

And what is his agenda? First, to close the border. Next, to fix our economy, including the cost of energy and groceries. Then, to keep us out of foreign wars. And finally, to AUDIT the high cost of government, which created our almost $40 TRILLION deficit and debt.

These four main points are what he campaigned on and what the American people overwhelmingly elected him to do.

The creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was a known concept he wanted long before the election. And yet, now the Democrats and the media are up in arms about this department doing audits of the wasteful bureaucracies that have been created and have apparently misspent our hard-earned tax dollars for many years.

On every issue that DOGE raises, the Democrats and other interest groups, go to “Blue” states, like Oregon, New York and Massachusetts, to find sympathetic judges to their cause. And invariably, the judges issue temporary restraining orders to block, or at least hamstring, the President in his goal to unearth waste, fraud and corruption.

This begs the question, are these judges that corrupt, too?

The New York Post is reporting today that Elon Musk, President Trump’s Special Government Employee and head of DOGE, has suggested that judges who have thrown up roadblocks to his Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) crusade to trim bureaucracy should be impeached. And removed.

“This ruling is absolutely insane!” he fumed in a post. “How on Earth are we supposed to stop fraud and waste of taxpayer money without looking at how money is spent? That’s literally impossible! Something super shady is going to protect scammers.”

And he is right. The American people knowingly voted to find out why we’re are in such a sad financial state. But the Democrats, like Schumer and Warren and others, want their friends on the bench to subvert the will of the people.

Which begs another question. How many Democrats fear their own corruption will be discovered?

And keep in mind that the nineteen Attorneys General who filed the cases to block DOGE to these liberal judges, including the corrupt Letitia James, are all from the states which voted against Donald Trump. So THEY and the DEMOCRAT Party are out to subvert the will of the majority of Americans.

Perhaps, it is time for the Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi, and other conservative AG’s to file an emergency petition to the Supreme Court on behalf of all the people and counties who voted FOR this accountability to block and rejoin any further roadblocks until a full accounting is competed.

Then, once this is done, those who were found guilty of stealing our money should be imprisoned for Grand Larceny, much like a bank robber or other high crime. Including our elected officials, and judges, who knew this was going on, profited from it and betrayed their sacred oaths to preserve, protect and defend us from all enemies, foreign AND domestic.

Because they knew and did nothing.

Security Clearances, Shattered Egos and Revenge

Some people have criticized President Trump for taking away so many security clearances, from people like Biden, Bolton, Brennan, Blinken, Sullivan, and the fifty-one “intelligence” people who signed the bogus Hunter Biden Laptop Russian disinformation memo. Which was finally revealed to be true.

 

So, why would he continue to allow those miscreants to have security clearance to our nation's secrets? Especially if they were deceivers and liars? He obviously didn’t trust them.

On Saturday, we learned that two other people had their federal security clearances revoked. They are New York AG Letitia James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.

Is this a revenge play? Of course it is. And it is well-played, like the Grandmaster Chess player that Donald Trump is. The Art of the Deal, indeed.

They will no longer be permitted to enter any Federal building to do their jobs. This includes the Javob Javitz Center, where the FBI is housed, any Federal Court House, like Foley Square in lower Manhattan, including the Thurgood Marshall and Daniel Patrick Moynihan courthouses, or the D’Amato courthouse in Central Islip, and the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

They also will not be able to set foot in the US Attorney’s offices for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Bad move by the expert lawfare prosecutors. They just destroyed their privileges at the Federal level.

“It’s more an insult and a slap in the face than a real deterrent,” said attorney Bob Costello, a former Manhattan federal prosecutor who testified as a defense witness in Trump’s hush-money trial in Manhattan.

And Trump is not done stripping others of their clearance privileges. Also in Trump’s sights are Biden’s Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, who was involved in overseeing lawfare investigations against Trump and coordinating the DOJ response to the Jan. 6 riot, and who helped orchestrate the Russia Hoax while working for Obama.

Next in line are anti-Trumpers Andrew Weissman, the lead prosecutor in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russiagate investigation of Trump; lawyer Mark Zaid, who represented Eric Ciaramella, the CIA analyst identified as the whistleblower in Trump’s impeachment in 2019 over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky; and Norm Eisen, special counsel to the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment.

So maybe he won’t be having any of these people prosecuted, as the Democrats and media proclaimed. Instead, he kicked their egos as they will no longer be able to have unfettered access to any Federal facility anywhere in the United States or its territories.

Aahhh, yes, the old Spanish (or is it Klingon) proverb: Revenge is a dish best served cold.

DOGE's Mission Is To Save Our Money

This week, President Trump announced that DOGE was going to focus on the Department of Education and the Department of Defense. Funny thing, some people had a problem with this.

 

If you recall, Mad Max and her gang of ninety-five tried to take over the DOE yesterday to make her point. But, surprisingly, no one tried to hijack the Pentagon.

President Trump had promised to use Elon Musk during his campaign to head DOGE in order to identify government waste of taxpayer monies. Thus far, the USAID was essentially closed due to identified fraud and waste.

As reported in USA Today, Trump has talked about closing the Education Department. His administration is considering "options and how to reduce the size of the Department of Education if not abolish it completely," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News this week. Trump also said this week that putting his nominee to run the Education Department out of a job is a priority.

Cutting military spending could face more GOP resistance, but about 13% of the federal budget, $872 billion, goes toward defense spending, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. That makes it a prime target for potential cost savings.

However, Republicans have not reacted the way Mad Max and her gang did. Maybe reason is proving to be the sign of being the adult in the room. Or the Congress.

After all, isn’t the goal of everyone in the government to do right for the people they work for? You know… you and me??

Saving Americans their tax dollars should be the focus of all.

Taking Away a Former President’s Access to Information

It has been customary for Presidents to provide security clearance and daily intelligence briefings to their predecessors. And this was done until 2021, when Joe Biden revoked Donald Trump's clearance and briefing access.

 

The former president set the precedent when he barred Trump from receiving access to the same briefings four years ago, citing Trump’s “erratic behavior.”

So, as it has been reported by many media outlets, President Trump announced he is following the new norm, by revoking Biden’ access and clearance.

It may seem petty and childish to some, but the man didn’t remember he signed an executive order to ban liquid natural gas exports in Louusiana. And remember, this is the President who defeated Medicare.

“There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information,” Trump wrote. “Therefore, we are immediately revoking Joe Biden’s Security Clearances, and stopping his daily Intelligence Briefings.”

When asked why, he answered, “Because I don’t trust him. He’s not worthy of trust … To safeguard national security.”

President Trump doesn’t need Biden around to help him out. Biden could not help HIMSELF out during most of his term. And doesn’t even remember a lot of it.

So it is probably in our national security interests in the long run that President Trump took this action where Biden’s access is revoked. For all potential leaks by a man with dementia.

And we can rest easier knowing Joe Biden will not be able to blab secrets to anyone else.

The Democrats Make a Mob Scene

Rep Maxine Waters (D-CA) led her Democrat colleagues to try and attempt to overtake the Department of Education building today. Not surprised because this jerkweed only knows how to instigate negativity.

 

Video footage shows an officer informing the lawmakers that their meeting request had not been “accepted” and there was “no business purpose” for their visit.

To which she screamed at the officer, “Get out of the way! We pay for your job!”

Actually, you have that all wrong, Congresswoman. As a taxpayer, like the rest of us, he pays YOUR salary and you work for HIM. And you tried to stop him from doing his with your nonsense.

The video (here) revealed a tense, unprofessional ruly mob claiming to be Members of Congress, demanding access without an appointment. Ninety-five of them.

This was reported in the New York Post with the video, as well.

They appeared ready to rush the guard if he moved and what? Take over the building, like they accused the J6 crowd?

President Trump has previously indicated he wants to shut down the DOE and return the responsibility to the states. He knows he can’t do it with an Executive Order. He knows he needs  the Congress to close down a Congressionally created department.

But some Democrats are out to prove their stupidity. Like old Maxine. And the other ninety-odd Members who showed up today.

And by the way, a delegation of three or four would have demonstrated reasonableness to be considered oversight. Ninety-five is a mob or gang.

And if these ninety-five Democrats were at the Department of Education building, weren’t they missed by the other 120? Did they let Leader Jeffries know they would be on a field trip?

Next time, Maxine, stay back and let someone with intelligence attend the meeting. You coulda tripped up the stairs, fell and broken your hip like the Wicked Witch from San Francisco.

And that would be horrible for you.